Basinski in Cambridge


Chris Goode's performance of Ursonate as part of the LEAN UPSTREAM season will be preceded by a short programme of "abuse-bouches" -- linguistically innovative texts and scores by Vito Acconci, Samuel Beckett, and Cathy Berberian, as well as four pages by contemporary American visual poet Michael Basinski.

This work was performed earlier in the year by Chris Goode [left] and Jonny Liron [right] as part of an event called Language Thinks Language at Pembroke College, Cambridge. A video recording of that performance is embedded below. (Note: contains strong language throughout.)

For LEAN UPSTREAM, the number of poets simultaneously performing their interpretation of this work by Basinski will be increased to four, with Goode and Liron joined on-stage by Keston Sutherland and Lawrence Upton.


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Read a short essay on performance by Michael Basinski here.